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The Power of God's Love 0:00 Hey, men. Kenny Luck here, founder of Everyman Ministries. I'm so glad you're here from wherever you are, on your way to work, in the backyard, around a fire pit, with your men's group, in a church hall. We're just so0:10 glad as a part of Everyman team that you've chosen to open up God's word and grow spiritually. Now a couple coaching tips. Just make sure you have your bible handy. It's always a great reference point. Make sure you have0:21 the downloaded notes. Those help you not only follow along, but then you can teach it and give it away. Now, fun fact, you know, this live stream is only 1 time a week. But we0:33 have a community of 70000 plus men who receive fresh insight and encouragement from God's word in the Everyman daily devotional. You wanna join that community and get just a fresh0:44 encouragement on a daily basis versus just the once a week meeting, go ahead and go to the bottom of the home page. There's a little space there. You put in your email and just sign up. Lastly, before we go to the0:56 study, if you have been ministered to or blessed by the every man in life for you, let me encourage you to bless another man. Somewhere in the world, on a military base, maybe it's a group of friends, maybe it's a1:07 church, give financially.1:19 There's a little donate there. It just helps us to get what you're gonna watch out into the spaces and places where men are so they can become like Jesus.1:31 Now, let's join today's study. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in Ephesians chapter 3 and the other in Luke chapter 10. We1:43 are in part 5 of our series called Shadow Self. We're dealing with the inner man. We're dealing with the part of ourselves that we don't necessarily want people to see and we're dealing1:55 with the part of ourselves that we need to defeat if we're gonna have 2 things happen, a great relationship with God and a great relationship with others. And my prayer for today's session is2:07 that it will be like, I don't know, maybe like a heat seeking missile in your relationship with God that just explodes the2:18 gap between your head and your heart when it comes to your relationship with God. You know what I'm talking about. There's a difference between knowing about God and2:30 knowing the promises of God and hearing about how God loves us and really knowing by experience the love of2:42 God. And the reason this is important for our series and why we're punctuating this series talking about eliminating the gap between your head and your heart when it comes2:54 to the love of God. Because if you eliminate that gap, listen, you're gonna defeat the shadow self. So we're gonna talk in in a few parts.3:06 We're gonna talk about how the light of God's love is death to the shadows. We're going to talk about things that block the light of3:18 God's love and sustain the shadows, and then we're going to be talking about releasing the light of God's love in our living with some really3:29 practical action steps. So let's get right to it. If you have the downloaded notes, let's look at the top of those notes, and the headline is, The light of God's love means, or equal sign,3:41 death to the shadows. And here's what we're going to do. We're going to read a few scriptures with not a lot of commentary and then we're going to unpack what we learn from scripture about how3:53 God's love is meant to be experienced. Okay? Versus intellectually processed. Okay? So let's look at our first scripture. Romans chapter4:04 5 verse 5 says this and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured out into our hearts4:16 through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. I want you to make 1 little note next to that verse that God's love puts death to shame.4:30 When God's love gets poured into your life, it puts death to shame. We're going to talk more about that. The second scripture we're gonna lead with is Ephesians chapter 3 verses 17 to 19, and it says this,4:42 and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with the with all the Lord's holy people,4:53 listen, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may5:05 be filled to the measure of all fullness. So the light of God's love puts a death to the shadow self, death to shame, and in this5:17 passage we read how it's the death of emptiness, right? We get filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. All right, let's look at our last passage up top first Peter5:28 chapter 1 verse 8 Says this though you have not seen him You love him and even though you do not see him now you believe in him and are5:40 filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy. Do you see the displacement of of of things in5:52 us through the love of God? You haven't seen him, but you love him and then you get filled with a specific thing. Inexpressible and glorious joy, which means by default the6:04 displacement and death to despair, the displacement and death to depression, the displacement and death to cynicism because joy and despair can't exist6:16 in the same space, depression and joy can't exist in the same space, and cynicism can't can't be in the same space as joy is. So when we6:28 think about the light of God's love and then the shadow self, we really see in scripture how love is meant to6:40 be experienced and how it brings a death to shame, a death to emptiness, a death to despair and depression and cynicism. So let's now talk about this6:51 process and see if we can't and I'm going to use a word that dudes may have a distant relationship with, but let's see how this process is supposed to7:04 feel. Because God's love, just like love in any relationship, is meant to be felt. Okay? So let's unpack based on what we just read7:16 in scripture, how God's love is meant to be felt and experienced. All right. And the first thing we learn from the Romans 5 passage is that the light of God's love is an7:28 infusion process. All right? And the key word in that is pouring. The Bible says because God's love has been poured out into7:40 our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Now, the image that comes to my mind, I go back to my my clinical pastoral days on the seventh floor of Western7:51 Medical Center in Anaheim and working with cancer patients. And during that time, I learned so much about cancer treatment, cutting edge cancer treatment, the developments. And 18:03 of the things that was developed, that is really a process of infusion and displacement was a thing called monoclonal antibodies.8:15 Okay? And these are antibodies that are cultured, in the lab, and then they are infused into the body of a8:27 cancer patient. And listen to this. Listen to what happens. These monoclonal antibodies literally like a heat seeking missile, they go and they attach themselves to8:39 certain kinds of cancer. So they go in the body and they attach themselves to certain kinds of cancer. And once they attach themselves, they then inject into the cancer8:50 cell chemotherapy. So this is what we call in oncology, targeted chemotherapy, and you can't get more targeted then infusing an antibody9:02 into, into the bloodstream, those antibodies traveling and then finding cancer cells, attaching to a cancer cell, and then injecting9:15 chemotherapy and You see when I read Romans chapter 5 when it says God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.9:27 That's what I think about. God's love being infused into my thought life, into my emotions, into my will, attaching to lies9:39 and eliminating them, attaching to fears and eliminating them. So I want you to see that that's how God's love is supposed to operate. The light of God's love is an infusion9:50 process. It's a pouring into you in order to accomplish things and it's pulled off by the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, seeking10:02 out things and converting them over from death to life. Secondly, the light of God's love is an internalizing process, and this is where in Ephesians chapter 3, I10:14 just love the language of Paul because the key word is is grasping. Okay, and that's that's a mental and emotional and an internalizing10:26 process. You you know what I'm talking about. You've heard someone say, you know what? I don't grasp that concept yet. And then upon a little bit of education, perhaps, or training, the person then10:38 says, you know what? Now I now I can grasp that. I've another way of saying is I've got my head around it. Alright? So I can own it and it's not just10:50 information that I've deposited here, but it's actually no, I'm I'm getting it with my head and my heart. I'm grasping this. Alright, whether it's a math problem or a do it11:02 yourself project or fixing something, listen to me. God's love is something that you definitely need to grasp. You11:14 got to get your head right about it, and then you have to align your heart with what your head knows, and then there needs to be travel from what you're grasping intellectually to11:26 grasping it, listen to me, experientially. So that it's completely 100 percent yours. That's God's desire. So the light of God's love is an11:37 internalizing process, a grasping process, and as infusion and internalizing of God's love happens, the shadow self begins to be displaced and11:49 starts dying. Right? Third, the light of God's love is an intimacy process. Paul says that you may have power together with the Lord's holy people to grasp how12:01 wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge. So12:13 you see the juxtaposition of grasping and then you see knowing and there's a differentiation between knowing12:25 love that surpasses knowledge. Okay? There's there's knowing intellectually, there's knowing mentally, there's knowing cognitively, but then there's knowing12:37 experientially. For example, I'm a snowboarder, so I could tell you what I know intellectually about snowboarding.12:49 I could tell you when the first board was developed. I can tell you the concept. I can talk about carving. I can talk about s turns. I can talk about slowing down and how13:01 to stop. I can speak intellectually about snowboarding. But there is a a quantum difference between telling you what I know about13:13 snowboarding the history the dynamics the physics with I know snowboarding because I've experienced snowboarding. You know, when13:25 you're on the board, what you're going to feel is and you know an s turn is going to feel like this and when when you come to a stop, you know, what you have to do. That kind of knowledge is different.13:37 Now, this is what coach Paul the Apostle is trying to get across. He's he's praying that believers will cross that line from knowing up13:49 here to actually knowing an experience and knowing an experience is trumping just knowing intellectually. I bumped into thousands of Christians that say, you14:00 know, I I know a lot about God, but I really feel dry. I know a lot about God, but you know, and I believe his promises. They're just, you know, they're just kind of not for me. Okay? That is never14:12 God's plan and this is the way I'm praying for you right now in this moment. I'm praying that you're going to internalize that you are going to grasp and that you will know that you know14:24 that you know. Right? This love of God that surpasses knowing about love. Okay? Number 4, the light of God's love is14:36 an invasion process. Okay? And so we've had pouring, we've had grasping, we'd have knowing, and then we have filling. And I love the language here that says that you may be filled to the14:48 measure of all the fullness of God, right? So just imagine, you know, a map of your heart and just this filling15:00 filling filling filling filling filling right to the fullest measure, right? Where whatever was there before or whatever was dominating in the heart before, now that's getting15:12 in there's an invasion of God's love in your life and fear is getting pushed out. Okay. There's an invasion of God's love and shame is going to be pushed out. There's an invasion of God's love and confidence is coming in15:23 and doubt is going out and you're getting filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. And I want to share with you that that is God's intention15:35 with his love and your experience of his love and that's his process. So it's an infusion process an internalizing process an intimacy process15:47 of knowing God's love and an invasion process where God's love is permeating, filling, invading that heart, where unhealth is leaving,15:59 the shadow self is leaving, the lies the shadow self believes in, right? All of those things the inner junk is leaving because of God's love you see how16:11 powerful the love of God is can we say that together the love of God is power It is. And the Apostle Paul16:23 says, this is why I'm praying that this process of God's love getting in you and doing things in you, will grow. Lastly, the light of God's love causes16:35 a shift emotionally and that's where we sense what's happening inside of us, right? So as God love kind of takes the16:47 elevator down, as God's love permeates not just our our our brain and, you know, our thought process, but it actually makes its way16:58 into the the battlefield of thoughts and will and emotions and spiritual conflicts as God's love makes it in there and17:10 now starts to displace things, you sense a shift emotionally. And that's what what Peter's talking about. When he says though you have not seen him, you love him and even though17:22 you don't see him now, you believe in him. So we're believing that God's love is pouring into us. We're getting our head around it. We're knowing it intimately and we're17:33 getting filled and look what happens. You believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy. Now when I17:45 say the light of God's love causes a shift emotionally. You say, what do you mean Kenny? I'm just saying that we are working out emotionally,17:58 okay, and cognitively in our mind and our heart what God has already worked in spiritually. See,18:10 it's not that the power is not already there to experience. It's not that the intimacy is not already there to experience. It's our thought process, and we've talked a lot18:22 about that. It's our thought process and moving from a thought process to a believing process to an experiential process with God's love and and we know this on a human18:34 level, right? You know we think about somebody we think about wanting to get to know them then we start getting to know them and now it's just like we start learning about them and experiencing them and then what happens18:45 love? We start to love them and we start to experience the the relationship and the power of the relationship in our life. Now if it happens on that level with human18:57 beings, just imagine what God wants with us. And the light of his love, again, brings death to the shadows, death to shame, death,19:09 to emptiness, death, to despair. You get to experience the joy. Jesus's prayer in John 17 is answered that my joy may19:21 be in them. And the question now is, well, are you experiencing that? And why are you not experiencing that?19:32 Right? And my guess is is that there's something inside of you and that's that's why I said I want this session to be like a heat seeking missile.19:44 My guess is that there's a blocker of the light of God's love that's sustaining your shadow self. There's an aspect of yourself that has hasShow more In this video 0:00 The Power of God's Love19:50 Overcoming Blockers to God's Love45:11 Living in God's LoveComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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